Folk in Print: Scotland's Chapbook Heritage, 1750-1850

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John Donald, 2007 - 438 pages
Though they represent a great unmined treasure-trove of history, literature and popular culture, chapbooks have been incomprehensibly and disgracefully ignored. This title presents a study of this form of publication.

Contents

Acknowledgements
9
The Chapmen
41
The Folk in their Condition
65
Trades and Occupations
130
The Masons
151
Houghmagandie
159
Courtship and Wedded Bliss
202
The Demon Drink
241
The Sailors
251
The Soldiers
283
The Irish
301
The Gaels
307
The Adventurers
333
Bibliography
413
Index
421

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Folk in Print: Scotland's Chapbook Heritage, 1750-1850
Edward J. Cowan
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About the author (2007)

Edward J. Cowan was formerly Professor of Scottish History at the University of Glasgow and Director of the university's Dumfries Campus. He previously taught at the Universities of Edinburgh and Guelph, Ontario. A fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, he died in December 2021.

Bibliographic information

TitleFolk in Print: Scotland's Chapbook Heritage, 1750-1850
AuthorEdward J. Cowan
EditorsEdward J. Cowan, Michael Paterson
Editionillustrated
PublisherJohn Donald, 2007
Original fromthe University of California
Digitized24 May 2008
ISBN1904607519, 9781904607519
Length438 pages
  
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